Sand Mountain is a towering section of knobbed
hills that joins the national forest lands of the state and lies about twelve miles south
of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. It is located between the small towns of Jeffersonville and
Means. It rises high above the rolling landscape around it.

Around the turn-of the -century, and before the wide use of automobiles, people in the
region near Sand Mountain reported seeing mysterious lights on the steep slopes. First
hand accounts reports often claim that the lights would appear along the roads and paths
of the mountain, sometimes acting as if they had an intelligence and following travelers
as they passed nearby. One man claimed that a "ghost light" often appeared along
a certain stretch of road, hovered in the air and then vanished.

Today, the area near the mountain is much more populated than in years past
and few still speak of the "ghost lights". Some have suggested that natural gas
wells may have caused the phenomena but no one really knows for sure.

Sand Mountain is located south of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky between the towns of
Jeffersonville and Means and just off Highway 460.